Riot Fest Chicago 2014 – Friday
I woke up to find that the temperature had fallen twenty degrees overnight and that maggots were dripping from the ceiling. It could only mean one thing: Riot Fest. This is the tenth anniversary and Riot Fest found ten bands to play one of their iconic albums in its entirety. And GWAR brought cake for everyone […]
CBGB (The Movie): A Review
As a senior in college I spent spring break in NYC, staying at a cheap hostel on Bowery. It wasn’t until the morning that I saw CBGB across the street. For any kid growing up listening to alternative rock, the venue existed as some sort of shrine—where miracles happened, where mortals became rock ’n’ roll […]
Review: How to Build an Android: The True Story of Philip K. Dick’s Robotic Resurrection
Slapping this book over to read the backside blurbs, I was preemptively skeptical that David F. Dufty’s nonfiction chronicle on the conception, creation and odyssey of Philip K. Dick’s android likeness would appeal to Dick’s reader-base in theory, but find itself in a limbo where it would be heckled or embraced by anyone with enough […]
The Bottomless Well: A Natural History of Ambient Music – #1
“Very deep is the well of the past; should we not call it bottomless?” – Thomas Mann, Joseph and His Brothers I. We Tell Ourselves Stories In Order To Live Quick High School refresher before we get to the real topic: recall Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch’s seven basic conflicts (you learned them in lit class) […]
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